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Gorbachev, railing against capitalism, sounds a lot like Obama
Less than a week before the U.S. election, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev berated America and all but endorsed the sitting president and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner at an event I attended in Houston. Speaking last Thursday from a...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Mikhail S Gorbachev, Russia, Entertainment Events
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Colleges could feel impact of losing wrestling from Olympics
Over the past 40 years, college wrestling programs have been in a frequently unsuccessful fight for their lives. Nearly half of the 147 Division I wrestling programs that existed in 1982 are gone. Athletic directors would lop off wrestling teams, then...
Tags: International Olympic Committee, Sports Organizations, Sports, College Sports, Wrestling
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A Wary But Resilient Boston Keeps It Together, Defies Blasts That Tried To Tear It Apart
The Hartford CourantThe bombs did not stop a field trip of first-graders from making a picnic lunch on the sidewalk outside the Old South Meeting House Tuesday afternoon. No, the gruesome pressure cooker devices did not dissuade a Kansas City couple from setting out for...Tags: The Boston Globe, Fenway Park, Road Running, Sports, Deval Patrick
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Swashbuckler on the grandest stage
WASHINGTON -- When I met Margaret Thatcher she was out of office, watching with more than a touch of amusement as her successor, John Major, meandered from crisis to disappointment to sticky wicket. Major seemed in thrall to events, not in command of...
Tags: Conservative Party (UK), Argentina, Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom, National Coal Corporation
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Supremes waffle on marriage equality
Over the last 40 years, I've been involved in a lot of political battles for a lot of different causes: workers' rights, women's rights, gay rights, environmental protection, anti-war, anti-nuclear power, anti-urban sprawl, animal rights, gun control,...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Rights, Gun Control, Social Issues, Hillary Clinton
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A Feminist Looks Down From The Penthouse
The Hartford CourantA new book suggests that ambitious women should "lean in" to achieve success. What do we mean by "an ambitious woman"? What defines "achieving success"? Most important, what is "a new book"? OK, I know the answer to that one: A new book is where we...Tags: Cultural Development, Arts and Culture, Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Culture
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'They don't want to go back'
March is Women's History Month, but the headlines give us little to celebrate. Women who dare to attend protests in Egypt are routinely beaten and subjected to brutal "virginity tests." Girls in Afghanistan are beaten or disfigured for attending school....Tags: Arab Spring, Civil Rights, Annapolis, Viral Diseases and Infections, AIDS
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Dawn Turner Trice: Addie Wyatt exhibit opens
When Chicago's Rev. Addie Wyatt died last year at 88, I wrote that she was a dynamo in the labor, civil and women's rights movements. That was a mere snapshot. On Saturday, an exhibit of her life will open at the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights, Chicago Tribune Columnists, University of Chicago, Justice and Rights
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Judge Marissa Mayer by her job, not her gender
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is abolishing the company's work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to show up at the office. Her decision has sparked intense and often nasty debate, with Mayer usually landing on the losing end. Many women, in particular,...
Tags: AOL LLC, The New York Times, Marissa Mayer, Minority Groups, PBS (tv network)
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Michelle Obama's wings
WASHINGTON -- If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush, who in her husband's second term discovered that she, too, had a voice...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson
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Rosenthal: The road to workplace equality
Even before she was the only female in her high school physics class, Ilene Gordon understood the idea that changing momentum requires force. She has sought to be part of that force. At 59, Gordon can boast two grown children, a 34-year marriage and...
Tags: Stock Car Racing, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., NASCAR, Corporate Officers, Civil Rights
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Next step for feminism: Go global
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," which revealed the mind-numbing ennui of the mid-20th century American housewife, and a great deal of ink has been spilled describing how far we still...Tags: Career and Workplace, Sports, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of State, Viral Diseases and Infections
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